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The annual UMass ADVANCE lecture and awards reception took place on March 27.

Educators and technologists alike say the genie is out of the bottle with AI, and understanding the technology will be critical for all students — how it works, potential uses, the ethics around it and what it will do.

Over the past two years, a working group of the University of California Instructional Design and Faculty Support (IDFS) community of practice has dev

Although failing to enter the popular lexicon as of yet, the term emergency remote teaching (ERT) is intended to avoid conflating what wed now call traditional online education with the improvised adaptation of face-to-face lesson plans and classroom experiences to the synchronous videoconferen­c­ing platform available to any given school dur­ing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Teachers had little to no training when schools across the state made the emergency switch to remote instruction during COVID-19, and what followed was learning loss and problems with student behavior and mental health.